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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms ... time I realized, 30 people had already filled out the form. So, this is based on around 100 responses. In addition, I tried to rank the top 5

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  ’m certain doesn’t even have real tea, the in-betweens began to fill out, and I felt the satisfaction I felt when clearing out a section of a map in a ... ’m including cambridge here but not the other cities, because i can. i love to be

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  find out by chance that two of my friends know each other in ways I would ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... office hours, I feel just a little like a genius. Students come in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  in your decision and prepared to give yourself to it fully. I think ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my classes, and thanks to AP credits I could graduate in two and a half years

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  year, in order to 1) see what actually happened and 2) figure out what I ... , and I think that says something; I know that in the end, I’ll figure out ... Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... have ASE'd out of 18.02 (I definitely could have) and used my 8.01 credit ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  'd never built a robot. I had never hung out with Ben Jones in real life or ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... terrorist," they said in my mind the last time I was on an airplane. "She

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  company instead of graduating. This term, I’m back to get out of student ... changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... in my own life too. I live miles away from campus (which used to seem

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in ... some of them. I can use wood and metal files. I can re-key the pins in a ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  pick out a piece from their collection that they can hang up in their ... , I was looking for people in history with whom I can personally ... PIECE????????? (i spent a considerable amount of time in my formative

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  interstitial fat around the gut, I unrolled the intestines as carefully as I can with the tweezers. I still ended up accidentally poking a hole in the ... before I started dissecting the head, I leaned in a bit too close and saw a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  at least I have some security in mind that I can come out to them ... closeted in high school to come out to others in college. I wrote about this ... blogger, that maybe they’d never find out and I can have my own little

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  hypnophobia—fear of sleep. In particularly bad bouts, I'd freak myself out about ... that scale in years: the bottom of my gut would drop out, I'd hallow out ... work out walking times to most places in NYC. I did this mental math and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... then there are my professors, who have, as far as I can tell, been

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  seemed too tense, my muscles seemed to clench, each time I got in. I can ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in ... leaving the gates, the thought of being out in the world for several hours

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of ... have a river view. I also can’t imagine a better a college town than

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  can’t pinpoint what exactly I want out of my college experience, but the ... in U. I knew that I probably wasn’t going to hang out with this ... Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  was going to tackle MIT, I had to straighten out what was going on in my ... intense than any I can remember in the ~5 years I’ve been a part of it. The ... test I flunked, dropping out of a musical to take care of my chem grade

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me ... rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of ... get in. Period. I checked the decision online, put my head in my hands

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006